Chihiro is a fourth-year M.D. student at National Taiwan University, currently a visiting scholar in the David Ho Lab. In Taiwan, she previously conducted research in the Department of Microbiology, where she led a project on telomere maintenance in patients with Parkinson’s disease, and in the Department of Emergency Medicine, where she worked on implementing AI models to identify antibiotic-resistant pathogens in the emergency room setting. Prior to joining the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, she collaborated with Dr. Bertrand Lebouché in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University to develop an AI chatbot for patients living with HIV. She has also completed internships at Abbott and several biomedical startups across California and Taiwan.

Outside of medicine and research, Chihiro enjoys eating and drinking across NYC, discovering jazz and R&B, and calling her younger sister in Tokyo.